1 B eing therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore, since we are justified ( acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us have '> enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

2 t hrough whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Through Him also we have access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

3 A nd not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

Moreover let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.

4 a nd stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character produces joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.

5 a nd hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.

6 F or while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

While we were yet in weakness, at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly.

7 F or scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die.

8 B ut God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But God shows and clearly proves His love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

9 M uch more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

Therefore, since we are now justified ( acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ’s blood, how much more we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God.

10 F or if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more, now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin’s dominion) through His '> resurrection] life.

11 a nd not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy reconciliation.

12 T herefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--

Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, '> no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.

13 f or until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law.

14 N evertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.

Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not themselves transgress as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come '> the former destructive, the Latter saving].

15 B ut not as the trespass, so also is the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.

But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for many.

16 A nd not as through one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one sin. For the sentence of one brought condemnation, whereas the free gift many transgressions brings justification ( an act of righteousness).

17 F or if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

18 S o then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life.

Well then, as one man’s trespass to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men.

19 F or as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him).

20 A nd the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

But then Law came in, to expand and increase the trespass. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded,

21 t hat, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So that, as sin has reigned in death, grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.